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Christopher D. Birkhimer

Examiner (ID: 7970, Phone: (571)270-1178 , Office: P/2136 )

Most Active Art Unit
2136
Art Unit(s)
2136, 2138, 2186
Total Applications
643
Issued Applications
463
Pending Applications
58
Abandoned Applications
137

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/845769
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATED NEURAL-NETWORK CONVOLUTION AND TRAINING Jun 20, 2022 Pending
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17/839797
Storage device configured to selectively change a stream identifier and operating method of storage device Jun 13, 2022 Issued
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17/829964
Data deduplication method and apparatus, and computer program product May 31, 2022 Issued
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17/830047
Controlling variation of valid data counts in garbage collection source blocks May 31, 2022 Issued
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17/743340
APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO DECOMPRESS DATA May 11, 2022 Pending
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17/743137
Semiconductor memory device and memory system including the same May 11, 2022 Issued
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17/742019
Smart queue for distributing user requests to automated response generating systems May 10, 2022 Issued
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17/738924
Control apparatus to achieve performance while lowering temperature of a solid state drive May 5, 2022 Issued
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17/732675
Data reduction method, apparatus, computing device, and storage medium for forming index information based on fingerprints Apr 28, 2022 Issued
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17/717454
Garbage collection and bin synchronization for distributed storage architecture Apr 10, 2022 Issued
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17/656645
Garbage collection for data storage Mar 25, 2022 Issued
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17/701476
Data movement based on address table activity Mar 21, 2022 Issued
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17/689078
Storage system and data processing method using data compression Mar 7, 2022 Issued
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17/653364
Data relocation with protection for open relocation destination blocks Mar 2, 2022 Issued
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17/679859
MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD Feb 23, 2022 Abandoned
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17/648874
Adjustable deduplication method, apparatus, and computer program product Jan 24, 2022 Issued
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17/583022
Automatic deletion in a persistent storage device Jan 23, 2022 Issued
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17/579904
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING DATA OF STORAGE SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Jan 19, 2022 Abandoned
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17/577471
PROCESSING OF DATA STORED IN A MEMORY Jan 17, 2022 Pending
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17/647530
EFFICIENT INLINE BLOCK-LEVEL DEDUPLICATION USING A BLOOM FILTER AND A SMALL IN-MEMORY DEDUPLICATION HASH TABLE Jan 9, 2022 Abandoned
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